On December 11, 2023, the MIT GCFP brought together a panel of experts on housing and financial regulation to examine whether changes to the FHLBS might be warranted.

Jonathan Parker, Robert C. Merton Professor of Finance at MIT Sloan and co-director at the MIT GCFP, recently provided answers on [...]

Edward Golding (MIT), Laurie Goodman (Urban Institute), and Jun Zhu (Indiana University and Urban Institute)

The Center for Finance and Policy has teamed with The SWIFT Institute to host a conference this fall to explore areas that could result in better interactions between [...]

The U.S. government’s ubiquitous role providing credit—mostly to students and homeowners—in the post-financial crisis economy is unmistakable but the ultimate costs to taxpayers can be far from obvious. While nearly all of the deliberation and debate about the price of extending government credit is...

Greece recently failed to pay $1.7 billion due to the IMF, thereby becoming the first developed country to default on an IMF loan. That missed payment represents only a portion of the approximately $23 billion in IMF credit outstanding to Greece, suggesting the ultimate losses to the Fund could be m...

Tribute to John “Mac” McQuown, long-time member of the GCFP Advisory Board

MIT GCFP 6th Annual Conference: Retirement Finance: Policies for a Better Path Forward

Nearly one decade after the Global Financial Crisis, regulators and policymakers are rolling back post-Crisis regulations, including regulations meant to strengthen capital and liquidity requirements as well as ‘living wills’ for large banks. What where the major initiatives taken since 2008 to stre...

Chester Spatt, a distinguished senior fellow at the Golub Center, recently authored Proxy Advisory Firms, Governance, Market Failure, and Regulation in his capacity as a senior fellow at [...]